Location: Seattle, United States
A single hour of sunlight contains enough energy to meet global energy consumption for an entire year. With demand for energy on the rise and environmental pollution an increasing concern, scientists are exploring new ways to harness the sun's...
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Location: Oak Ridge, United States
The answer to the looming fuel crisis in the 21st century may be found by
thinking small, microscopic in fact. Microscopic organisms from bacteria and
cyanobacteria, to fungi and microalgae, are biological factories that are
proving to be...
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Location: California, United States
Sunlight is a major source of energy, from photovoltaics and solar-thermal
units to biofuels and water-splitting. But all these technologies require
intermediate steps and infrastructure to turn the sun's rays into something that
can be...
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Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
In Britain, a study of adolescents emphasizes the prevalence of vitamin D. Above all, it highlights the effect of such a deficit in muscle strength. The best solution: leave every day!
A new study published in the Journal of Clinical...
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Location: University of Washington, United States
A new approach is able to create a dramatic improvement in
cheap solar cells now being developed in laboratories. By using a popcorn-ball
design -- tiny kernels clumped into much larger porous spheres -- researchers at
the...
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Location: University of Hawaii at Manoa (UHM), United States
Scientists have developed a new way of determining the size
and frequency of meteorites that have collided with Earth.
Their work shows that the size of the meteorite that likely plummeted to Earth
at the time of...
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Location: Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, United States
Black carbon, a form of particulate air pollution most often
produced from biomass burning, cooking with solid fuels and diesel exhaust, has
a warming effect in the atmosphere three to four times greater than prevailing...
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Location: UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, United States
Environmentally friendly hydrogen gas fueled vehicles can
dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and lessen the country’s dependence
on sources of fossil fuel. Though several hydrogen vehicles exist on the market...
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Location: University of California, Riverside, United States
A
University of California - Riverside -led study in the Mojave Desert,
Calif., has found that soils under “desert pavement” have an unusually high...
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Location: University of Arizona in Tucson, United States
Liquid water has not been found on the Martian surface within
the last decade after all, according to new research.
The finding casts doubt on the 2006 report that the bright
spots in some Martian...
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Location: University at Buffalo, United States
A comprehensive new study authored by University
at Buffalo scientists and their colleagues for the first time documents in
detail the dynamics of parts of Greenland's ice sheet, important...
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Location: Durham University, United Kingdom
A national team of scientists led by experts at Durham
University are embarking on one of the UK’s largest ever research projects
into photovoltaic (PV) solar energy.
The £6.3million...
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Location: University of Southern California, United States
By 2100, warmer oceans with more carbon
dioxide may no longer sustain 1 of the world's most productive fisheries,
says
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Location: University of California, Santa Cruz, United States
In the race to make solar cells cheaper and more efficient, many researchers
and start-up companies are betting on new designs that exploit
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Location: University of Michigan, United States
Wind isn't acting alone in the geological process behind erosion, sand dunes
and airborne dust particles called aerosols.
The other culprit is electricity. By...
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Location: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, United States
A new study provides the first evidence that people with higher body mass
index (BMI) may have a greater response to ozone than leaner people. Short-term
exposure to atmospheric ozone has long been known to cause a temporary drop in
lung...
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Location: Vanderbilt University, United States
There is a new twist on the question of how biological clocks work.
In recent years, scientists have discovered that biological clocks help
organize a dizzying array of biochemical processes in the body. Despite a number
of hypotheses,...
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Location: Brookhaven National Laboratory, DOE, United States
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a new tool for quantitatively measuring elusive atmospheric chemicals that play a key role in the formation of...
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